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US
/ˈsɪɫkwɝm/
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[ UK /sˈɪlkwɜːm/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪlkwɜːm/ ]
NOUN
- larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
- the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk
How To Use silkworm In A Sentence
- Wild silk or tussah comes from a wild species of moth, usually the tussah silkworm. HOME COMFORTS
- This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails.
- On the menu were silkworm pupae, weevil ants and mealworms. Times, Sunday Times
- This article outline research progress of male silkworm moth.
- Silkworm silk, bee honey. People do not, not as objects.
- It is obtained from semi-domesticated multivoltine silkworm, Antheraea assamensis. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- I was driving to the kids school Friday in a really good mood and i rounded this corner and i saw the sun shimmering down on the grass and i just thought "wow the world just glows, it is luminescent" and then i realized the sun was reflecting off of these silkworm threads that literally covered the grass, and a bagworm had completely surrounded this ginormous oak. Archive 2007-03-01
- Standing in the camphorous light of the station, the glowing things of civilization all around her, a single silkworm rappels delicately from the ticket kiosk. COCOONED • by J.A. Matthews
- They increased their income by raising silkworms and so on.
- The stubbles straggle wanly sunwards, and the falling leaves rustle to the earth, with a sound as of errant silkworms. Hunger
